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Inside Amazon's Super-Weird, American Idol-Style TV Series Development Process

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Special Issue: How to Succeed on YouTube *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Amazon's new production arm, Amazon Studios, is right now breaking new ground by premiering fourteen scripted pilots and having the public help decide who will get series orders. ... More >>

10 Porn Stars Who Could Be the Next Jenna Jameson

See also: *Veruca James, Accountant Turned Porn Star: "I'd Always Been Wild" *Top 10 Strip Clubs in L.A. *Porn Star Tasha Reign's Secret Life as a UCLA Student Los Angeles is home to lots of dreamers; would-be actors, musicians and writers all flock to our golden shores trying to find their place i ... More >>

The Movies of Kim Jong Il, Now Available Via Bootlegs and YouTube

Occupy Protest Outside Century City Deutsche Bank Blocks Traffic; 6 Arrested

Occupy L.A: Not dead yet, it seems. Almost a year after the raid on Occupy's encampment at L.A. City Hall, the movement moves on -- this time targeting Deutsche Bank in Century City. Six people were arrested this afternoon for allegedly ...

Luka Magnotta -- 'Hollywood Body Parts Killer' Who Murdered Hervey Medellin?

The so-called Hollywood body parts case from early this year has produced no arrests and few headlines in subsequent months. The head, hands and feet of 66-year-old Hervey Medellin were found Jan. 17 near the Hollywood sign. His apartment was searched, his roommate was questioned, and false reports ... More >>

Jenna Marbles, YouTube Star: Outtakes From Our People Issue Interview

L.A. Weekly profiled YouTube star Jenna Marbles for our 2012 People Issue. Here are more excerpts from our interview:

Live Stream the James Beard Awards: Cheer Mozza Possible Foie Protest

If you're the sort of food-obsessed person who will be following Twitter this afternoon and evening to find out exactly who's winning awards, or who's complaining about not having done so, at tonight's James Beard award ceremony, you might consider just live streaming the event. That's what the folk ... More >>

Tempest in a Teacup: Cup Controversy at Half & Half Tea House

To call the tea bar scene in the San Gabriel Valley vibrant is a vast understatement. Dozens of perpetually crowded small cafés across the 626 serve teas and boba drinks while providing socializing and studying spots for those not old enough to drink alcohol or those not so inclined. It's precisely ... More >>

How Tiger Woods Haters on YouTube Inspired an Art Show

After Tiger Woods ran into a fire hydrant and his wife pulled him bleeding and unconscious from his Escalade, and after he withdrew from tournaments and admitted to serial infidelity, vloggers talked about it. Artist Natalie Bookchin, whose other projects had already dragged her deep into the pile o ... More >>

11 Craziest Nude Scandals in L.A. in the Last Year (Photos NSFW)

Lots of crazies get in trouble in our fair city, and lots of those crazies are also nude. Just this week a naked man (above) climbed a radio tower in downtown L.A. and threatened to jump. Do they have this problem in, say, North Dakota? What is it about L.A. that brings out the unhinged unclothed? ... More >>

Lana Del Rey: Why Brian Williams and Others Are Completely Wrong About Her

See also: *Lana Del Rey - The Troubadour - 12/7/11 *The Problem With Lana Del Rey (Is You) Lana Del Rey used to be known as Lizzy Grant, and her song "Trash," a live performance of which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube, is remarkable for its tacky narrator. She is pure tra ... More >>

'CSUN Asian Library Finals Freakout' Video Reignites 'Asians in the Library' Controversy

crzdcole via YouTubeDon't mess with finals girl.​After the rage over UCLA student Alexandra Wallace's "Asians in the Library" video had run its course, it seemed no troll-y imitator could recapture her shock value. We were, in a word, jaded. (Just ask this chick, who rubbed mustard all over he ... More >>

Videos: Hollywood Boulevard Halloween Mayhem as Fights Break Out, Man Beaten Unconscious

A YouTube upload captures a man on the ground after the Hollywood street fights.​A series of fights broke out along Hollywood Boulevard as Halloween-themed club parties let out for the night Saturday. Some of the anarchic violence was captured on a pair of YouTube videos (after the jump). One ... More >>

John Jutiyasantayanon Is Second Young Man to Die at Eaton Canyon Park in 1 Week; Hikers Dare Each Other to 'Conquer Diablo Falls' on YouTube

YouTubeThrill-seekers scale Eaton Canyon's second waterfall​An employee-in-training at Southern California Edison (electricity provider for much of L.A. County) died Saturday after a 50-foot fall at Eaton Canyon Park. John Jutiyasantayanon, a 23-year-old Montclair resident and graduate from C ... More >>

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The Cliterati

Is Grooveshark the Future of Digital Streaming?: The Secrets of the Popular Streaming Site You're Probably Listening to Right Now

Did Prince upload all this?​ Article and interview by Jade Shames I got on Skype and called my contact. His name is Ben Westermann-Clark, the VP of Public Relations at Grooveshark's head office in Gainesville, Florida. While I'm writing this article, I'm listening to a band called Masterfac ... More >>

VIDEO: Bikini Flash Mob Gets 'Irresponsible' to Passion Pit Mashup at the Grove in L.A.

YouTubeOK, we can get behind this​We thought flash mobs couldn't get more corporate than that bubblegum stunt last month in which the Disney stars from "Lemonade Mouth" gave Apple Store shoppers at the Grove their most exciting memory since the release of the white iPhone. But as of yesterday ... More >>

Dallas Mavericks Diss L.A. Lakers on YouTube: 'Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Lakers Fans'

YouTubeDirk Nowitzki, the "Toy Story" version​Something to rile you up for tomorrow's big Game 3 between the Lakers and the Mavericks: This infuriatingly catchy, anti-L.A. jingle we haven't been able to get out of our heads since we heard it on the radio yesterday morning. (Damn you, KNX!) Th ... More >>

Venice Crimes Such as Auto Theft, Aggravated Assault, Burglary Way Up

Tony Vera / YouTubePolice on the beach.​The unusually warm spring weather has brought out the rowdies in Venice, it seems. April was a violent month on the beach, with fights, stabbings and even a shooting. New LAPD statistics from mid-April (PDF) show that certain categories have seen huge i ... More >>

Vegan Bacon: Your Parks and Rec Scene of the Day

Fans of Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler's comedy series on NBC, already know that the show provides hilarious proof of The Midwest As Dystopia. What some of us didn't realize until it became the topic of lunch conversation was that it also delves into food commentary. If you didn't see the epis ... More >>

The Wizard From Oz

Happy Birthday, Mr. Governor: Jerry Brown's Low Rent Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday, Governor Brown. Jerry Brown tweeted his surprise (and characteristically low rent) birthday party yesterday -- the governor turned 73 on Thursday, April 7th -- which appears, via YouTube, to have involved a traditional sheet cake, a venue that resembles the setting of an AA meeting, ... More >>

USC VIDEO: Techies Pwn Google, Turn 'Gmail Motion' April Fool's Prank Into Reality

YouTube​Updated after the jump: One of the USC techies shows us how to work real-life Gmail Motion. And it's ever radder than we thought. Google unleashed many a poke in the rib on April Fool's Day 2011. There was the Helvetica-turned-Comic Sans search -- a budding typophile's wet dream -- an ... More >>

David Lynch on His Live Collaboration with Duran Duran, Plus the Director's Favorite Duran Duran Song

Sean Teegarden​ Read "David Lynch, (Non-)Musician: The L.A. Weekly Interview." Tonight at the Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, Duran Duran will take the stage in support of their latest album, All You Need is Now. This won't be a standard concert, it's actually part of American Express' ... More >>

Angry Black Cowboy Responds to Alexandra Wallace: 'Bruce Lee Was Asian!!' (VIDEO)

YouTubeMess with the Asians, and you mess with this guy​Not to keep giving some racist chick from UCLA way more attention than she deserves -- and we know how bad she wants it! -- but we've recently been made aware of the best YouTube response yet to Alexandra Wallace's viral "Asians in the Li ... More >>

Alexandra Wallace-Inspired 'Ching Chong' T-Shirts to Fund Japan Relief Efforts

Internet meme for a cause​Updated after the jump with PHOTO EVIDENCE of Wallace herself modeling the "ching chong" shirt for Red Cross! (Sort of.) When UCLA student Alexandra Wallace uploaded her "Asians in the Library" rant to YouTube that fateful Sunday afternoon -- blissfully unaware she ... More >>

Marijuana: DEA Raids Otherwise Legal West Hollywood Pot Shops, Won't Say Why

YouTubeZen Healing has an ATM inside for all your nonprofit transactions.​The DEA's stealthy raids of two medical marijuana dispensaries in West Hollywood this week had folks really scratching their heads. Why? Well, unlike the city of L.A., Weho appears to tightly control and regulate its di ... More >>

'Venice Poo Poo Blues' Video Criticizes City For Allowing 'Mobile Homeless' RV Dwellers In Beach Community

YouTubeWould founder Abbot Kinney "hang himself and die" if he saw Venice today?​The battle over the "mobile homeless" in Venice hit a high note Monday when a resident opposed to the constant and perhaps growing presence of RV dwellers posted a YouTube video called "Venice Poo Poo Blues" (afte ... More >>

Your YouTube Video of the Day: Dog, Knife, Fork

Perhaps we owe this one to William Wegman, who pioneered the Still Life With Dog. In Wegman's case, it was some extremely photogenic Weimaraners. In this YouTube video by Adlan Adlanov, we have what appears to be an equally photogenic Golden Labrador at a dinner table, and with better table manners ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Announces A 'Bike Summit' Following His Own Bicycle Crash

YouTube​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently reached out to the bicycle community via YouTube and announced -- more than a week after he broke an elbow in a bike accident on Venice Boulevard -- that he would help organize a summit about the future of pedal power in L.A.. 'We're go ... More >>

FROM WEB TO SCREEN

George Steinbrenner Will Be Remembered For The Hollywood Work On 'Seinfeld' He Didn't Actually Do

NBC vis YouTube​As New Yorkers mourned the passing of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a tribute was planned for Tuesday night's Major League Baseball game in Anaheim, and former team manager and former Yankees leader Joe Torre was speaking about his old boss to reporters at Dodger Stadium T ... More >>

Lakers Parade Underway

​The Lakers championship celebration parade was underway in South Park. Watch a live stream of the event here. The Los Angeles Times reports that police were asking fans not to get on top of bus shelters along the route. The paper also reported a mobile medical marijuana dispensary was givin ... More >>

Top Ten YouTube Comments for Ricky Martin's 'She Bangs' in the Last 24 Hours

​As Dinah Washington once sang, "what a difference a day makes, twenty-four little hours"! It seems like only yesterday when we all went about our daily routines safe in the knowledge that the sun was shining above us, a competent guy who looks good in Shephard Fairey posters was still our pr ... More >>

YouTube Video Of Speeding Nissan GT-R Helps Bust Driver For Alleged Insurance Fraud

YouTube​A YouTube video showing a Nissan GT-R sports car crashing helped bolster the state's case against a Diamond Bar brother and sister accused of filing a false insurance claims to cover repairs on the vehicle. (See the video after the jump). Insurance commissioner Steve Poizner, who's ru ... More >>

Should Hollywood Be Afraid Of The iPad?

Apple​As Apple honcho Steve Jobs introduced the company's latest game-changer, the iPad, the Los Angeles Times called it "the most anticipated tablet since Moses.'" Over-hyped or not, the possibilities for this near 10-inch touch-screen computer will probably roll over us slowly -- the same wa ... More >>

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You've Been Romak-Rolled: Romak & the Space Pirates Looks To Anonymous and a Popular Meme for Its New Video

RoMak & the Space Pirates "Never Gonna Give You Up," directed by Be Like. Local band RoMak & the Space Pirates, who last caught our attention for releasing their debut full-length as a USB flash drive bracelet, have done it again. This time, the electro-rock foursome is RoMak-rolling fans and rand ... More >>

Industrial-Strength Sound of the Crowd: Audience Footage of VNV Nation at Club Nokia

VNV Nation "Honour," live @ Club Nokia, 6/27/09. Video by MlleAlistar. It took less than twenty-four hours for the cell phone videos of VNV Nation's Saturday night performance to pop up on YouTube, mostly single-song snippets of shaky footage with varying sound quality. What makes these videos int ... More >>

LA People 2009: Strange and Wonderful Thing — Josh Brody

Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter Makes Cameo at Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Tuesdays

Ugh. We missed it, and a lot of the YouTube clips have now been marked 'private.'

Hey, You, Get Off Of My Image!

Someone needs to take a poo on Diddy's Clorox white suit

A modest proposal to sully Diddy's Hollywood Star.

Kids of Widney High, Amoeba, 2/28

Kids of Widney High, Amoeba Records, Feb. 28, 2008 By now, I hope that most people reading this know who the Kids of Widney High are, so I'll only briefly mention their story for those who might have forgotten. They're a group of disabled students (or former students) from a Los Angeles special ed ... More >>

Soulja Boy: Cranking the Chain

No one understands the murky, download-rampaged world of major-label rap better

Friday Video: Ozark Jubilee

The Ozark Jubilee: Li'l Liza Jane and more clips from the 1950s TV show

Foreign Pop Stars, Bubblegum Karaoke and a Mysterious Celebutot

Music-Driven Lifestyle. Positive?